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    The Miracle of the Lights
    The Miracle of the Lights
    The Miracle of the Lights
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    The Miracle of the Lights

    By Cindy Rizzo

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    When her girlfriend, Tova, leaves their upstate New York Hasidic community to avoid an arranged marriage, eighteen-year-old Chava goes in search of her among the hundreds of homeless LGBTQ youth in New York City. Once there, she faces the challenges of life on the street and must reconcile the insulated world she has known with the new and unfamiliar choices she confronts. But nothing else matters—not the cold, the onset of an illness, or her brush with danger—nothing, except finding Tova.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherYlva Publishing
    Release dateJan 28, 2015
    ISBN9783955333539
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    The Miracle of the Lights - Cindy Rizzo

    The Miracle of the Lights

    by Cindy Rizzo

    Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.

    http://www.ylva-publishing.com

    Copyright 2015 Cindy Rizzo

    Smashwords Edition

    Edited by Cindy Rizzo

    Cover Design by Kaitlyn Connolly

    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, events, and locations are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons or events, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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    Table of Contents

    The Miracle of the Lights

    Glossary

    About Cindy Rizzo

    Other books from Ylva Publishing

    Coming from Ylva Publishing in 2015

    The Miracle of the Lights

    Cindy Rizzo

    On the second night of Chanukah, I constructed a makeshift menorah out of an empty glass bottle and two tightly rolled pieces of paper crammed into the opening. Bending the papers away from one another, so that the whole contraption looked like the letter Y, I lit the ends, pretending the match was the shamash, and quickly said the blessings in a quiet corner of the park in Union Square.

    I had been in this city four days—four cold and icy days—and

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